Special Awards at the NEOSEF are awards that are given in addition to the regular first, second, and third places and honorable mention awards.  Special Awards awards are donated by area technical and scientific organizations and/or companies.

These organizations and companies send volunteer judges, Special Award Judges, who are familiar with the criteria established by their company or organization, to judge student's projects.  Some organizations or companies may look for the best of use of statistics in a project.  Others might look specifically at how photography is used in a student's project.  Some may require that a certain topic like herpetology or fire risk management be incorporated in the student's project.

The rules for these Special Awards and the prizes awarded vary between organizations and may even change from year to year.  Prizes range from cash to savings bonds to leather bound notebooks to back packs to gift cards.  Some students may even be eligible for scholarship money.

If your company or organization is interested in sponsoring a Special Award at the Fair, please contact Mary Dodge at the Parker Hannifin Corporation at 216-896-2638.

The follow is a list of Special Award sponsors from last year

Air and Waste Management Association
American Chemical Society - Cleveland Section
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
American Meteorological Society
American Psychological Association
American Society for Information Science and Technology – Northern Ohio Chapter
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Statistical Association
ASM International - Cleveland Chapter
ASM Materials Education Foundation
Association for Women Geo Scientists

Bolton School of Nursing, Center for Research and Scholarship
Bowser-Morner, Incorporated

Case Western Reserve University – Center for Science and Mathematics Education
Case Western Reserve University – Dept of Biology
Case Western Reserve University - Frances Payne
Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Cleveland Chemical Association
Cleveland Clinic – Atrial Fibrillation Innovation Center
Cleveland Clinic – Bakken Heart-Brain Institute
Cleveland Clinic – Children’s Hospital
Cleveland Clinic – Dept of Biomedical Engineering
Cleveland Clinic – Dept of Cell Biology
Cleveland Clinic – Dept of Immunology
Cleveland Clinic – Dept of Psychiatry and Psychology
Cleveland Clinic – Innovations
Cleveland Clinic – Kaufman Center for Heart Failure
Cleveland Clinic – Lerner Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic – Office of Civic Education Initiatives
Cleveland Regional Council of Science Teachers
Cleveland Society of Professional Engineers
Cleveland State University – College of Science
Cleveland State University – Dept of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University – Dept of Chemistry
Cleveland State University – Dept of Health Sciences
Cleveland State University – Dept of Mathematics
Cleveland State University – Dept of Physics
Cleveland State University – Dept of Psychology
Cleveland State University – Fenn College of Engineering
Construction Management Association of America – Northern Ohio Chapter
CSA International

Discovery Channel
Dominion

FirstEnergy Corporation

Great Lakes Science Center
Green Energy Ohio

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Intel Excellence in Computer Science
International Society for Optical Engineering
Iota Sigma Pi – Fluorine Chapter, Cleveland
Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society

John Carroll University – Dept of Chemistry
John Carroll University – Dept of Physics
John Carroll University – Dept of Psychology

Kinetico Incorporated
Kirtlandia Society of the Cleveland Museum of Natural

History

Kiwanis Club of Cleveland

Montgomery Watson Harza
Mu Alpha Theta

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Society of Black Engineers
National Society of Professional Engineers
Northern Ohio Association of Herpetologists

Ohio Dept of Agriculture and Food Sciences Research
Ohio Dept of Biotechnology Research
Ohio Dept of Energy Research
Ohio Dept of Environmental Sciences Research
Ohio Dept of Information Science and Technology Research
Ohio Dept of Litter Prevention and Recycling Research
Ohio Dept of Manufacturing Sciences Research
Ohio Dept of Materials Science Research
Ohio Dept of Water Resources Research
Ohio Water Environment Association

Parker Hannifin Corporation

Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
Rockwell Automation

Society for Applied Spectroscopy – Cleveland Section
Society for In Vitro Biology
Society of Automotive Engineers – Cleveland Section
Steve Koszyta
Stockholm Junior Water Prize

United States Air Force
United States Army
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Metric Association
United States Naval / Marine Corps

Vinarcik Family

Yale Science and Engineering